2017-08-13

This report I have planned in my mind for a long time.I started collecting and playing games in the eighties andit all started with a catalogue from the tin-soldier-company Prince August. In 1987 I frequently visited allof my local hobby-stores and also toy-stores becausethey offered a lot of nice models and extras.In one toy-store named ""Leksaks-city" they had put somePrince August-catalogues on display and they were allfree and advertisement but I missed the last one andasked the sales-woman behind the counter how I couldget one of these catalogues myself and she helped me with apostadress. I sent a ppostcard and one week later Igot one of these catalogues in my letter-box.This catalogue inspired me a lot and I read it over and overagain but I didn´t start ordering the moulds until years later.My first tin-figure was also a Prince August and I got itas agift from my friend Felix when I tested the very famousrole-playing game Drakar and demoner in the middle ofthe 80-ies.It was a skeleton-warrior with a cape and Iliked it a lot and it only took a week before I bought myfirst paintset from Airfix. These paints were not so good andthey were not waterbased and smelled real bad.Eventhough this fact I managed to paint the skeleton andit is my favourite still. Next figure was a orc-captain and this is better painted andalso highlighted and my skilled has improved a bit.

My first ready-made tinfigure I have bought wasa lizard man in the scale of 15mm.The figure had a big axe originally but this was lostduring the years. Prince August also released some fine-detail-figuresand my two first were the orc with a standar anda bartender. Both these figures I have worked a lotwith but back then I didn´t know how to paint andalso the paints were a bit primitive.Lastly I want to show one of my favourite figures thatI bought at location in the UK in 1988.My father and I went for a holiday-trip to the UK andwe rented a car and drowe from London and up to the northern top of Scotland and back to the south and also Wales before getting back to capital.In Nottingham(Hill top) I also visited Games workshopbut I didn´t buy any figures but it was a nice visit.On Oxford-street in the GW-shop I bought a lot offigures and when we arrived at Heathrow I had6 kilos of overweight in my back-pack but I was luckyand was granted to enter the plane back to Sweden.

When I look back and reflect how my hobby hasaffected me I am really happy whith the result.many times when I have been very stressed ormoody it has given me joy and for all those outthere that has not decided yet if this hoby issomething for them to explore, my advise is:test it!!!

2017-08-03

This week I started working again after a vacation filledwith a lot of fixing on our house. Due to my injury in myright arm I haven´t been so active in my hobby andI am still trying to recover and the healing-process is veryslow because I work a lot on the computer at work.Eventhough my body is not 100% I am still thinking aboutmy hobby and on wednesday I stopped by on my wayhome at the local second-hand-shop and made somemore usable finds. For only 2.5 Euros I found three curved sand-bag-covers, two Abrams M1 tanks, a top-sign.The covers will be fitted with camo-nets and also roofs andbe used primarily for heavy support-weapons.The two tanks looks good but I think they are a bit small tobe used for 28mm and I will probably convert them and fit themwith bigger turrets to make the look more "right".I will scratch build these turrets and I will make several versions to be used for different scenarios. One way to gois to make them look more russian in the game: Secrets of thethird reich and add rivets and plates etc.The last find is a top-sign that I will use for a future house-model-project and when I noticed it in the shop I got inspirationto make a city hall or some kind of administrative building.

2017-08-01

Now the turn has come to the battlereport regardingmy latest gaming session. All four of the gamers had50 points each to spend and it resulted in a lot ofmodels and figures on the table.Blood angels x2 on one side of the table and Cadians/Astra militarium+Mordians on the other.The goal was to eliminate as much enemies as possibleand the Blood angels won with 5 points and the looseronly managed to get 4 points.The game was very even and we all had luck with thedices. The only downside of this gaming-session wasthat we managed to play 3 rounds out of 6.It was great fun to play and I think that my friends alsoenjoyed my hospitality. Speaking about the scenery I ammost pleased with my piles of bricks and rubble but I nowknow that I need more of these to the next game.I am already looking forward to next gaming-session of the year in 2018.